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Date:	Sat, 12 Apr 2003 05:15:54 PDT
From:	"Gary Wong" <gary.wong@sbcglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	< "scoug-help@scoug.com" > scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Updating Mozilla, profiles

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Svobi:

Take a look at http://www.mozilla.org/roadmap.html; it sounds like they will create a
stand-alone mail companion application with a code name of "Thunderbird". Also the
default browser component will switch from the XPFE-based (whatever that means)
Navigator to the stand-alone Phoenix browser (although the name Phoenix may be
changing soon).

I don't know how much (if any) influence Mike Kaply has on this roadmap document.

On Sat, 12 Apr 2003 03:22:42 PDT, Info 4 SYNass wrote:

>If you are responding to someone asking for help who
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>Hi Ray and everybody
>Your discussion regarding creating or updating the Mozilla profiles is
>very interesting for me ...
>... just now, with updating to V 1.4a, I ran into problems once more
>and again too ;-((
>
>Never in the years of using Netscape I lost my profile data nor
>anything in the User folders !!
>
>So my critics are going to the programmers !!
>They do not think efficiently and practicable as not to say far away
>from reality !?
>Their applications or programs are going bigger and bigger or, better
>said, fat and fatter
>but more in the direction of a pretty presentation playground than an
>efficient usability
>
>I really cannot understand why not more users do not complain about
>these,
>Microsoft-like and very stupid ONE-destination installations AND just
>putting exectuables
>and data into ONE and same destination without asking nor giving a
>chance to choose
>specific locations in a proper installation process !?!
>
>In my case it would be choosen like following:
>E:\OS2\MOZ\140a for the executables and
>H:\OS2\MOZ\140a\ISP\User for the DATA (all user relevant data i.e.
>profiles, bookmarks
>and e-mails)
>
>I do not want to be rude and so I cannot give a firm complaint to Mike
>Kaply and his Mozilla
>crew for not paying attention of these more user related important
>aspects !
>
>May be, and I do hope so, one or better many of you could do this
>compalints to the
>Mozilla developer team for reconsidering a much more intelligent and
>user-friendly
>installation plus also the RE-installation procedure !!!
>
>I believe, not only me alone, would appreciate this better installation
>;-)
>
>Kind regards,
>svobi
>
>
>
>
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>raydav@charter.net on 12.04.2003 06:53:27
>Please respond to scoug-help@scoug.com
>To: scoug-help@scoug.com
>cc:
>Subject: SCOUG-Help: Updating Mozilla, profiles
>
>Regarding Mozilla profiles, I assume the concern is email. I have been
>using Mozilla for email exclusively for about a month. It has taken me
>about a year to get it to work. I have NEVER gotten a profile
>converted
>from NS 4.61 to work completely. Hence, my advise, don't try. Create
>a
>new profile and copy the email files from NS, that works fine, don't
>try
>to copy them back.
>
>How to get the directory structure you want:
>Go to an HPFS partition X, NOT the boot partition.
>Create MOZPROFILES and MOZTEMP, both off the root.
>Put mozilla-os2.exe (install program) in MOZTEMP.
>Add; "SET MOZILLA_HOME=X:\MOZPROFILES" to config.sys.
>Boot.
>Go to MOZTEMP and run mozilla-os2.exe. It will offer to install into
>X:\MOZILLA. Say yes. During install select a profile name; MYPROFILE.
>
>A subdirectory MYPROFILE will be created several layers below
>MOZPROFILES. MYPROFILE will have MAIL, NEWS and CACHE subdirectorys.
>If Mozilla is running, exit.
>Delete X:\MOZILLA, yes I know you just created it.
>Move MYPROFILE to wherever you want it, say X:\MOZPROFILE\MYPROFILE.
>Leave MAIL, NEWS and CACHE in MYPROFILE or make copies of them
>somewhere
>else - on HPFS. Only delete the originals after you get the new
>locations to work.
>Go to X:\MOZTEMP and run mozilla-os2.exe. Install will find
>X:\MOZPROFILES\MYPROFILE and use it. You now have your profiles where
>you want them.
>Edit prefs.js to point to your new MAIL, NEWS and CACHE locations.
>When
>you get that working delete the originals.
>
>When a new mozilla is released, put it in X:\MOZTEMP, delete
>X:\MOZILLA,
>goto X:\MOZTEMP, run mozilla-os2.exe.
>
>If mozilla install does not create a folder and objects on the desktop
>run mozfold.cmd. You can create them yourself but this does a very
>nice
>job. I then move the folder off the desktop to connections.
>
>Ray
>
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